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Satyam Education Services Partners with GeneEd
to Address Training Needs of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology
Industries
E-learning courses in Biopharma, Therapeutic,
Regulatory and Compliance areas
CHENNAI, 10 Oct 2002—Satyam
Education Services Ltd. (SESL) India's leading provider of end-to-end
e-learning solutions, and a 100% subsidiary of Satyam Infoway Ltd
( Nasdaq: SIFY ), today announced a partnership with GeneEd, Inc,
USA, the leading provider of both Life Science e-learning curricula
and client-proprietary Scientific E-learning. The two companies
will work together to focus on providing comprehensive e-learning
solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in
India. The companies will offer e-learning curricula for research
and business professionals in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical
instruments, and healthcare organizations.
Satyam Education Services enables organizations to effectively
manage and enhance their human capital through end-to-end e-learning
solutions covering e-learning strategy formulation, implementation
of Learning Management Systems and Virtual Collaboration tools,
on-line courses in diverse training areas and custom courseware
development. GeneEd specializes in basic and advanced curricula
in the areas of clinical research, therapeutic area training, biopharmaceutical
technology and applications, drug discovery and development, pharmacogenetics
and clinical genomics, and therapeutic and diagnostic products.
A combination of GeneEd's advanced e-learning curricula and SESL's
technology solutions and services will help pharmaceutical and biotechnology
organizations in India sharply reduce time to competence of their
research and business professionals, along with savings in training
costs.
"Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are addressing
global opportunities for drug discovery, outsourced R&D and
bioinformatics services as an area of focus. Reducing time to market
for their products and services is therefore of strategic importance.
E-Learning can help achieve this through rapid organizational learning
in emerging frontiers of life science. We are excited about partnering
with GeneEd in addressing the learning needs of the Indian pharma
and biotechnology sectors", said George Zacharias, Director,
Satyam Education Services Ltd. and Chief Operating Officer of SIFY.
"The rapid and aggressive expansion of the life science marketplace
in India has created a significant need for enterprise-deployable
training in the unique technologies and scientific methodologies
required in pharma and biotech" said Dr. Sunil Maulik, CEO
of GeneEd. "The combination of SESL's leadership in enterprise
e-learning solutions with GeneEd's comprehensive life science e-learning
curricula delivers a comprehensive e-learning solution specific
to the unique needs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations
in India."
About Satyam Education Services
Satyam Education Services Ltd (SESL) is India's leading provider
of end-to-end e-learning solutions and services. SESL is a 100%
subsidiary of Satyam Infoway Ltd ( Nasdaq: SIFY ), India's largest
integrated Internet services provider.
SESL has partnered with leading providers of e-learning technologies
such as Sun Microsystems and Mentergy. It also brings world-class
e-learning content from global leaders such as ElementK for IT and
business skills training, and Breakthrough Management Group for
Six Sigma training and certification. Visit http://www.seslcorp.com
for additional information about Satyam Education Services.
About GeneEd
GeneEd, Inc. was founded in 1997 to provide life science and health
e-learning solutions through the creation of compelling, multimedia-based
training, using the Internet and company's Intranets as the primary
delivery platform. GeneEd uses the best life science content, combined
with a validated methodology for repurposing, to rapidly create
basic and advanced curricula in the areas of clinical research,
therapeutic area training, biopharmaceutical technology and applications,
drug discovery and development, pharmacogenetics and clinical genomics,
and therapeutic and diagnostic products.
GeneEd's catalog and custom courseware customers include such organizations
as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Bristol Myers-Squibb, Celera Genomics, Incyte
Genomics, IBM Life Sciences, and Accenture. GeneEd, Inc. is a privately
held company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Visit http://www.GeneEd.com
for additional information about GeneEd and its courseware.
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